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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (417306)9/15/2008 10:13:21 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1583415
 
"They need to turn the western part into a park or resort and leave it unbuilt."

When I moved to Galveston in the mid-70s, the West End didn't have many structures on it. And the ones it had were on the bay side. That started to change in the 1980s, and the pace has been accelerating. And a lot of those houses were really nice. The property owners put enough pressure on the city that beach access has been greatly restricted. Possibly illegally so. Used to be there was a sand road that cut through the dunes about every mile or so. Those are all gone now. What replaced them was several parking lots with no vehicle access to the beach. So the property owners have been, in essence, granted a private beach.

So, now that the grass line has moved, there will be a lot of houses that cannot be repaired because they are on public property. No doubt it will spawn a lot of lawsuits like with Alicia. And there will be attempts to overturn the Open Beaches Act again.
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